Senior Backend Engineer: Observability Migration (Remote)

Coderio; Tandil; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays access

Modernizing core platform observabiity

Professional development & learning

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is remote (global) with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. Strong English (C1) and experience with distributed tracing, metrics, and logs are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infra.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between New Relic data and OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel setup.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and work with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and risks throughout migration.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Tracing

Cloud observability

HTTP/APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Git/CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and ensure seamless monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is remote (global) with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. Strong English (C1) and experience with distributed tracing, metrics, and logs are essential.